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Minutes ago in Norfolk, Virginia, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan was introduced as Mitt Romney’s running mate. It turns out all that talk about Romney being risk averse was a bigger head fake that those bogus rumors of considering Condi Rice.Posted on 08/11/2012 1:35:39 PM PDT by NYer
Minutes ago in Norfolk, Virginia, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan was introduced as Mitt Romney’s running mate. It turns out all that talk about Romney being risk averse was a bigger head fake that those bogus rumors of considering Condi Rice.
There are five reasons why Mitt Romney’s bold pick of Paul Ryan is great for America.
1. Picking a Catholic running mate means that the Vice Presidential debate will feature two people who profess the Catholic faith but who are on opposite sides of life, marriage and religious liberty. The contrast couldn’t be greater. Paul Ryan has been outspoken on life and marriage. Joe Biden has supported abortion and pushed the White House to support same-sex ‘marriage.’ As CatholicVote noted yesterday, Paul Ryan has denounced the mandate: “This is much, much bigger than about contraception. This is about religious freedom, First Amendment rights, and how this progressive philosophy of fungible rights of a living breathing constitution really clashes and collides with these core rights that we built our society and country around.”
2. For the first time since Roe v. Wade, the Republican party will have a pro-life Catholic on the national ticket. The Republican Party has only nominated a Catholic once on the national ticket, when Barry Goldwater tapped New York Rep. William Miller on the 1964 ticket. And thankfully, Republican primary voters have, in the past, said no to pro-abortion Republican candidates like Rudy Guiliani. Paul Ryan has been a strong and consistent pro-life vote in Congress.
3. The Church, as well as the country, can have a conversation about government spending within its means. It’s one of the most important economic challenges facing us right now. Social Security and Medicare are set to go supernova in the budget as a title wave of Baby Boomers retire. Making the decision to slow down the rate of growth in these programs (not even actual cuts) would bring our fiscal house in order. But we’ll have to get beyond the hot air and vicious attacks.
4. And now we’ll have that national conversation on subsidiarity, too. The Obama campaign has said that they modeled their health care plan after Mitt Romney. But even if that’s true, it forgets the principle of federalism — the notion that the federal government should be limited to a few functions, allowing states and local communities (and civic organizations) the opportunity to tackle the problems in ways that work best for them. A one-size-fits-all solution has to work for the military, but why should we only have one health care plan across 3,000 miles?
5. Paul Ryan comes from a Midwestern blue collar district, critical to the GOP’s 2012 effort. For many years it was held by Lee Aspin, a Democrat who became Clinton’s Defense Secretary. In fact, President Clinton bested Bob Dole in this district by about 12 points. If Republicans want to win the White House, they’ll need to win the hearts and minds of people like those who live in Wisconsin’s First District. Paul Ryan speaks their language and understands their concerns and is a natural person to make the case in industrial Catholic cities like Dubuque, Saginaw, and Toledo.
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Mitt Romney went bold and picked Paul Ryan as his running mate. We’re now going to have an election based on ideas. We’ll have that much needed debate on Medicare spending. But we’re also not walking away from a debate on the HHS mandate and life and marriage, too.
Game on.
Those Sunday morning programs are so 20th century. Jon Stewart da bomb, yo!
That’s the “select subset” I’m talking about.
Colofornian, you need to step back and look at your posts. You’re flailing at the air.
Amen.
Right on Right on but... Biden will not be the VP candidate
It’s about a LOT more than spending and taxes. Ryan is a great choice!
(Which is why Errant agreed with me in post#60; and Longbow, who doesn't usually agree with me, agreed me in post #50)
Please proceed -- if you're consistent in any way, that is -- to tell them they're "flailing at the air" as well.
Sangria martyria sperma ecclesia
Of course!
As I posted on another forum, "we're all catholics now".
Which is why we should fear rather than cheer a "Catholic vs. Catholic" VP debade...can you not see that this is going to be come a wedge, if not an attempt at schism against the true Magisterium?
Incidentally, I don't know Latin, but I think the tagline is a better rendition of our --- what do you want to call it --- slogan, motto, or epitaph. The grammar may still be a little dicey.
JP II cited it as follows:
Sanguinis martyrum, semen christianorum
http://www.vatican.va/jubilee_2000/magazine/documents/ju_mag_01031997_p-56_en.html
That said, infalibility doesn’t extend to grammar. The omitting the est is no problem, but the genitive plural still looks a bit dicey to me. My search also came up with alternative spellings of the genitive. I have four co-workers with better latin, so if no one resolves it, freep-mail me and I’ll ask around work.
I think if catholics were going to vote according to the dictates of the values of their faith you would not have 60% of Hispanics voting for democrats.
Indeed they will attack Paul Ryan’s budget just as they did before. They will claim he aims to throw grandma off the cliff just as before. Only this time they will tie that to Mitt as well.
I’m not entirely sure why Mitt wants to take on this during an already tough election. Figuring out the sacrificial nessary to balance a budget is not an election year bouns. I suppose there is a good reason no member of congress has ever made a good president.
Paul Ryan can be expected to bring to this campaign and his job the same Controversy he has help bring to the house.
Success seems almost impossible.
I hear ya. Wish I could disagree.
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